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[Photograph 2012.201.B1073.0721]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Kent Lichtenwalter kneels beside overgrown track outside his Lone Wolf elevator which is getting service from the Southwest Oklahoma Railroad."
Date: March 5, 1980
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1073.0729]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "With the help of the sun's reflection these sparkling Sante Fe rails near Guthrie cut across the dark rail bed and through the darker background like two friendly laser beams traveling together."
Date: 1979
Creator: Cook, J. Don
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1073.0714]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Working under a hot summer sun, repair crews on the Sante Fe tracks near SE 29 and Shields resurface a crossing following the installation of heavier rails."
Date: June 14, 1978
Creator: Vahlberg, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1073.0724]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The rotted ties and warped track on the Katy line southeast of Altus have given strong indication for some time now that the days of rail service between the southwestern Oklahoma community and Burkburnett, Texas, are numbered."
Date: February 6, 1978
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1073.0720]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The clickity-clack of the old railroad track gets the silent treatment when new quarter-mile pre-welded 'strings' of steel are laid down."
Date: February 4, 1977
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1073.0710]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Steelrails and heavy wooden ties hang suspended in mid-air as a result of a washout on a Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad spur near NE 4 and I-35."
Date: May 30, 1980
Creator: Klock, Roger
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1073.0715]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Workers are busy near Altus replacing rail on a line that southwestern Oklahoma farmers once feared would cut them off from key shipping points in Texas."
Date: May 14, 1978
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1073.0732]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Two railroad workers were content to let the machinery do most of the heavy work Thursday while replacing old railroad ties on the Sante Fe Railway's tracks near Reno Avenue in downtown Oklahoma City."
Date: December 29, 1988
Creator: Hellstern, Paul
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1073.0706]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "VICTIMS OF TIME and technology, these uprooted old railroad ties lay like the shattered skeleton of a prehistoric dinosaur to remind a speedier society of the steaming Katy engines that once chugged alone across the Oklahoma panhandle."
Date: October 15, 1976
Creator: Carter, J. Pat
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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